Wizz A320 at Tel Aviv on Jul 30th 2018, engine shut down in flight

Last Update: July 30, 2018 / 14:10:15 GMT/Zulu time

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Incident Facts

Date of incident
Jul 30, 2018

Classification
Incident

Airline
Wizz Air

Flight number
W6-2542

Destination
Riga, Latvia

Aircraft Registration
HA-LWO

Aircraft Type
Airbus A320

ICAO Type Designator
A320

A Wizz Air Airbus A320-200, registration HA-LWO performing flight W6-2542 from Tel Aviv (Israel) to Riga (Latvia) with 182 people on board, was climbing through FL170 out of Tel Aviv's runway 26 when the crew stopped the climb due to a problem with one of the engines (V2527), shut the engine down and returned to Tel Aviv for a safe landing on runway 21 about 40 minutes after departure.

The occurrence aircraft is still on the ground about 5 hours after landing back.
Incident Facts

Date of incident
Jul 30, 2018

Classification
Incident

Airline
Wizz Air

Flight number
W6-2542

Destination
Riga, Latvia

Aircraft Registration
HA-LWO

Aircraft Type
Airbus A320

ICAO Type Designator
A320

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